Endeavour now May 8

I'm sure it was a little embarrassing to have to postpone the launch while the President was watching, but there's no substitute for safety on the penultimate shuttle mission. A fault in Aft Load Control Assembly #2 (LCA 2) means NASA will remove and replace the LCA: in other words, yank out and electronics box and plug in a new one, then test to make sure they have the right diagnosis and it's ready to go. The 8th is the earliest the shuttle can try for orbit.

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Wisdom for today

"Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)


Passed on by my friend Kris Winkler. It says a lot of what I try to emphasize in this blog and all my writing.

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Stolen Camera Finder Helps You Locate. Pinched Camera

Here's a really cool idea. When you take a digital photo, there is lots of info stored in the bits of the image. Things like shutter speed, F stop, and even the camera's serial number.

If you ever have your digital camera stolen chances are that pictures taken with it will be posted to the Internet.

Stolencamerafinder.com scours the net to find images taken with your camera to help you track it down.

Basically you drag a photo (taken with you camera before it was stolen) onto the site and then the site looks across the Internet tomfind photos that match the serial number. Hopefully that helps give you a clue as to where it might be.

The service is even FREE!


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Qik Video for visual chatting and sharing videos

Qik Video Connect PLUS is the application of the production of Skype and its collection is intended for video chat, as well as they can send an e-mail visible in addition to the video sharing with friends, which is used by millions across the world.

Qik Video Connect PLUS


Advantages of the application:


• contact the highest visual quality
• live video through 3G and WiFi
• connection between video devices and iphone Android
• Video sharing in the event of not being able to link direct
• Video sharing through Facebook and Twitter
• Send a private video message via e-mail or SMS
• Ability to follow-up videos posted by friends
• Ability to learn any of friends linked to video chat


Special features contained in this version of the application - Qik Video Connect PLUS:

- Tools that are easy to edit and adjust the video
- Seven special effects direct image
- Video compatibility with other software
- Great quality video - HD


Appropriate:


Works on iPhones.


Appropriate operating system: iOS 4.1 or later.


Appropriate: for all generations.


Size: 9.5 MB (you can download the cross-3G)

Download it From Here

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NASA Resets Shuttle Endeavour's Launch for No Earlier Than May 2

Joshua Buck

Headquarters, Washington                                   

 

Kyle Herring

Johnson Space Center, Houston

WASHINGTON -- NASA managers met Friday to discuss the status of space shuttle Endeavour's launch to the International Space Station. The launch was postponed because of a heater issue associated with the shuttle's hydraulic power system. The next launch attempt will be no earlier than May 2.

The shuttle has three Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) that provide hydraulic power to steer the vehicle during ascent and entry. NASA launch commit criteria and flight rules require all three APUs to be fully operational for launch.

Endeavour's external fuel tank was drained of more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen so engineers can access the area Saturday and evaluate the issue with APU 1.

For the latest information about the STS-134 mission and its crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle.

For information about the International Space Station, visit http://www.nasa.gov/station.

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More on the ivory-billed woodpecker

Here is an excellent article, with a link to more articles plus a sampling of rediscovered bird species. Ornithologist Jerome Jackson writes of the 1999 Kulivan sighting in the Pearl River area of Louisiana, "What were the odds that Ivory-billed Woodpeckers were really there? I believe they were mighty slim, but not impossible." He went on to note, "A bird like the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in a forest so vast and inhospitable is not just a moving needle in a haystack, but an evasive moving needle in a flooded haystack."

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New evidence for the ivory-bill?

Nice job by Loren Coleman of reporting on a new professional publication analyzing what appear to be audio recordings of an ivory-bill from the Pearl River ares of Louisiana. This was the area of a famous sighting, which held up to expert analysis, by Dennis Kulivan in 1999.
COMMENT: I am hardly an expert on bird calls, but this is certainly intriguing. I thought the famous Arkansas video was identified accurately as an ivory-bill, and some evidence from Louisiana and Florida was very good. If I had to guess, though, the bird is functionally extinct: reduced to a handful of individuals so scattered they can never re-form a viable population. I sure hope I'm wrong.

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The Sn0wbreeze 2.6.1 for iPhone 4 Verizon JB iOS 4.2.7 (new version)

 Sn0wbreeze has promised to launch a new version of iH8sn0w

And its 2.6.1 support  iPhone 4 Verizon in iOS 4.2.7 in iOS 4.2.7

and its  Jailbreak Untethered ...

    Sn0wbreeze 2.6.1        

Download From here :

Here

 the new :

 

picture of the program :

 

 

 for those who  has Jailbreak Tethered 

in iOS 4.2.7 they have to install Patch from cydia (from the Source)

http://cydia.pushfix.info

INstall

 

Done

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Amphenol's new panel mount PV connector features RADSOK technology

SIDNEY, USA: Amphenol Industrial, a global leader in interconnect systems, now offers the Helios H4 Panel Connector, a panel mount photovoltaic (PV) connector featuring RADSOK technology.

This new connector offers higher current ratings and lower contact resistance resulting in lower power losses and is compatible with standard industry connectors, including Amphenol's Helios H4 line, for easy integration.

Amphenol's new H4 Panel Connector, developed to help feed power from a solar panel into an inverter or combiner box, features quick snap lock mating for easy panel mount installation and termination to either box.

Designed for applications that use solar inverters, combiner boxes and installers, the H4 Panel Connector is dual-rated for UL and TUV. The connector meets NEC 2008 requirements without the need for extra locking collars or locking sleeves and is available in three different gauges including 14 AWG rated at 36 A, 12 AWG rated at 45 A and 10 AWG rated at 52 A.

This new RoHS compliant H4 Panel Connector is ready for field assembly and is UV and ozone resistant.

Pricing for the H4 Panel Connector starts at $3.35 per mated set. Delivery is four to six weeks ARO.

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Thanks to the ODA

I had a great time speaking at the Oklahoma Dental Association meeting on Saturday. Thanks to all of you who turned out and made the all day program a success. I'm truly honored by how many of you turned out and I'm grateful for you making the program a success.

After the lecture, I jumped in my vehicle and was back in my own house by 9:30 last night! It's great to do a program so close to home!


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